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MID Support

U.S. Customs requires the Manufacturer's Identification (MID) code for certain shipments to the United States.

What is Manufacturer’s Identification?

Manufacturer's Identification (MID) includes details of the manufacturer of the goods which is required in some cases by the US customs. MID includes the full business name and postal address of the manufacturing supplier as well as a specific code based on the manufacturer's name and country.

What do you Need MID For?

  • Any order shipped to the USA, no matter the value, that includes at least one product manufactured in China/Hong Kong.

  • Any shipment to the USA with a declarative value to customs higher than $2,500 (regardless of the Country of Origin of the products).

Configuration

You must configure the following fields:

  • MIDCode: A unique identifier generated from the manufacturer's name and location.

  • MIDAddress: The full postal address of the manufacturing supplier.

  • MIDName: The complete business name of the manufacturing supplier.

Generating a MID Code

The Global-e Crossborder app gets the MID information from the Product Metafields in the Products section. If the required data is not already available in your system or cannot be obtained from your manufacturer(s), you can generate the MID Code by following the steps below.

To generate a MID code:

  1. Collect Supplier Information: Ensure your manufacturing supplier has provided their complete business name and postal address. This information is essential for defining the MID code.

  2. Generate the MID code:

    1. Identify the two-letter ISO country code for the supplier’s country (e.g., GB for the United Kingdom, NL for the Netherlands, DE for Germany).

    2. Use the first three letters of the supplier's first and second names (if applicable).

    3. Extract the highest numerical digits (up to four) from the address line.

    4. Use the first three letters of the supplier’s city name.

    The following is an example:

    Supplier: Ozrock, 92 Alice Springs Road, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3001

    MIDCode: AUOZR92MEL

Configuring the MID Address and MID Name

No special formatting is required for the MID Address and MID Name fields. These fields should be filled exactly as provided by the supplier's data, as shown in the following example:

MIDAddress: 92 Alice Springs Road, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3001

MIDName: Ozrock

Adding MID to Shopify

For Global-e to provide the MID information to the carrier and display it on the commercial invoice, this data must be available in Shopify and transferred to Global-e using the following configuration.

To add MID to Shopify

  1. Create the relevant Shopify metafields:

    1. In Shopify, go to Settings > Custom Data > Products > Add definition.

      For more information see the Shopify Metafield Guide.

      Note

      If the manufacturer of your goods can vary between variants of the same product, the metafields should be created as variant metafields in Shopify, rather than as product metafields.

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    2. Add the following three metafield definitions:

      Important

      Make sure to add these definitions exactly as they appear here. Modifying names, namespaces/keys, or content types can cause errors.

      Name

      Namespace and key

      Content type

      MIDCode

      mid_info.midcode

      Single line text

      MIDName

      mid_info.midname

      Single line text

      MIDAddress

      mid_info.midaddress

      Single line text

  2. Update each product/variant’s metafields with specific MID data.

    • These can either be edited in bulk, or added to each product/variant individually.

    • If you have various manufacturers with different IDs, the metafields should be set individually for each product/variant so they reflect the manufacturer they originate from.